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Re: Weymouth Woods Banding / Bicknell's Thrush



Of course the Common Crackle is what you hear in a fire place, prescribed
burn or in your morning rice krispies. What we banded was the Common
Grackle.
Hope all of you have a wonderful weekend.

Chris Helms
WEWO
Southern Pines, NC

Scott Hartley wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> We are into our first year of fall migration banding at Weymouth Woods -
> Sandhills Nature Preserve and it has been a little slow. Our first
> morning was 9/7.  Susan Campbell, Scott Hartley and myself have been
> running 10 nets along the Pine Island Trail at WEWO. We have had
> assistance from several volunteers including Amanda Finch and Jill
> Froening.
>
> We have banded the following species thus far:    (17 birds total)
> Common Crackle
> Tufted Titmouse
> Carolina Wren
> American Redstart
> Ovenbird
> Hooded Warbler
> Black-Throated Blue Warbler
> Veery
> Swainson's Thrush
> Bicknell's Thrush
>
> The last 5 were banded yesterday (9/27), giving us an excellent
> opportunity to compare and contrast these 3 thrushes. Using the Pyle
> guide all indicators (overall size, lower mandible color, leg color,
> contrast of rect color with back color) all pointed us to Bicknell's.
> These criteria are easier to distinguish in the hand than through
> binoculars, but not a lot easier.
>
> We also were banding on Tuesday morning, 9/11/01 and look back at the
> quiet, peacefulness of that morning in a bottomland forest in the
> Sandhills of NC  in stark contrast to how different things were in NYC,
> Washington and PA and the rest of the country. Almost fittingly we
> caught no birds that morning.
>
> Chris Helms
> Weymouth Woods - Sandhills Nature Preserve
> Southern Pines, NC